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The Jewish Bloch
… On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of his Death The Jewish Bloch Chair: Malcom Miller Zecharia Plavin, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Bloch's Jewish-Hebrew musical narrative of Jewish Cycle and the late … generated 'nation-portraits' in view of the music-cum-culture-oriented commentators. Such a cultural discourse …
Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Ashkenazi traditions: the … European, Germanic tradition based on set figures, and a Jewish tradition based on expressive gesture. This paper … … Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s … history of cultural Zionism and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused …
The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s … capturing what he thought was the entirety of this exotic culture. This was no doubt a result of ardent national …
Diwan
… In Arab culture, a Diwan is an anthology of poems by one or several … written by Sephardi authors. When the poems of the great Jewish-Yemenite poet Shalem Shabazi began to appear, these …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock … Hanoch Avenary, “The Aspects of Time and Environment in Jewish Traditional Music,” Israel Studies in Musicology, IV …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …
Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana … [7] Joel Beinin, “Layla Murad: Popular Culture and the Politics of Ethnoreligious Identity,” in The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora. …